README File for:

"Deescalating a Trade War: Strategies of Reciprocation amid US-China Great Power Competition"

Cambridge University Press

Kai Quek, University of Hong Kong (ORCID: 0000-0001-8403-4280)
Eddy S. F. Yeung, University of Oxford and Texas A&M University (ORCID: 0000-0003-2843-6810)

August 7, 2025

List of replication files:
- "code.R": R script to produce all results related to the experiment reported in Section 4 and Supplementary Appendix
- "data_CN.csv": dataset for the Chinese survey experiment
- "data_US.csv": dataset for the US survey experiment

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Note 1: The replication was done with RStudio version 2024.12.1+563, and with the following R version:

platform       aarch64-apple-darwin20      
arch           aarch64                     
os             darwin20                    
system         aarch64, darwin20           
status                                     
major          4                           
minor          4.3                         
year           2025                        
month          02                          
day            28                          
svn rev        87843                       
language       R                           
version.string R version 4.4.3 (2025-02-28)
nickname       Trophy Case  

Note 2: The replication was conducted on macOS (Sequoia 15.6).

Note 3: Packages information:
package    version date (UTC) lib source
cowplot    1.1.3   2024-01-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
dplyr      1.1.4   2023-11-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
estimatr   1.0.6   2025-02-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
forcats    1.0.0   2023-01-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
ggplot2    3.5.1   2024-04-23 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
gridExtra  2.3     2017-09-09 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
lubridate  1.9.4   2024-12-08 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
purrr      1.0.4   2025-02-05 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
readr      2.1.5   2024-01-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
stringr    1.5.1   2023-11-14 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
tibble     3.2.1   2023-03-20 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
tidyr      1.3.1   2024-01-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
tidyverse  2.0.0   2023-02-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)